About your Z drive

About your Z drive

All Engineering students, faculty and staff are provided a Z: drive for storing their academic files. The Z: Drive is automatically mapped if you login to the Engineering Cloud. However, If you need to access your Z: Drive directly from your personal laptop or desktop. You can map it using the following path:

\\engvault01.eng.fau.edu\<FAU Net ID>$

Please note the following requirements for mapping from personal laptops or desktops:

User Name: FAU\<FAU Net ID> (don’t forget the “FAU\”. The backslash, “\” is found on your keyboard just above the enter key)

Password: type the same password used to sign into MyFAU, Blackboard and computers on campus.

Last click OK and you’ll be connected to your Z:\ Drive

Backups of the Z: drive

There are two types of backups performed on the Z: Drive:

Shadow Copy: The server does a snapshot (shadow copy) of your changed files at Noon and 7 PM which you can recover yourself (see below)

Mirror to another server: The data is mirrored nightly to another server in case of a catastrophic failure of our file server This is a write for write mirror (so if it’s deleted in one place it’s deleted here as well). Only TSG can restore data from this copy.

Recovering a file from your Z: drive (shadow copy)

Right click the folder where the file was saved (if it was in the Parent folder just right click any white area of the explorer window)

Select Properties

Select Previous Versions

Double click the the date you are looking for (or select the date and click open)

Locate the folder or file you want

Right click on the file and select Copy (or type Control-C)

Open a new file browser and navigate to a location where you want the file/folder to be put back into

Right click in that location and select Paste (or type Control-V)

Alternatively, you can just click and drag the file or folder from the snapshot file browser to the new location.